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DOCUMENT IMAGE RESTORATION

DocRes is a new model that simplifies document image restoration by handling five tasks: dewarping, deshadowing, appearance enhancement, deblurring, and binarization within a single system.

ACCELERATING LLM INFERENCE WITH EFFICIENT QUANTIZATION

QoQ, a novel quantization algorithm, accelerates large language model inference by using 4-bit weights, 8-bit activations, and 4-bit KV cache.

EXPLORING CHEMICAL SPACE WITH ADVANCED GENERATIVE MODELS

ChemFlow is a new framework designed to enhance molecular science by efficiently navigating chemical space using deep generative models.

AI ENGINEERS REPORT BURNOUT AND RUSHED ROLLOUTS AS 'RAT RACE' TO STAY COMPETITIVE HITS TECH INDUSTRY

Accelerated timelines, competition, and a lack of concern from superiors about real-world effects are themes common across a broad spectrum of the biggest effect companies. Engineers are increasingly saying that a large part of their jobs is focused on satisfying investors and not falling behind in the competition rather than solving actual problems for users. Some have been switched over to AI teams to help support fast-paced rollouts without adequate training, even if they are new to the technology.

I SPENT 24 HOURS WITH GITHUB COPILOT WORKSPACE

GitHub Copilot Workspace, now in a limited technical preview, offers a powerful programming tool that lets users code in plain English, from planning to implementation, within the browser. The AI integrates seamlessly with codebases, suggesting block-by-block code execution and handling complex tasks with less active user input compared to ChatGPT.

THE TEENS MAKING FRIENDS WITH AI CHATBOTS

Teenage users on Character.AI are turning to AI chatbots for companionship and emotional support, which they find helpful but potentially addictive. There are concerns about the appropriateness of AI in mental health, especially when bots give problematic advice or increase reliance on virtual interactions.

GPT-2-CHATBOT CONFIRMED AS OPENAI

The gpt-2-chatbot, which appeared recently in the LMSYS arena, has been confirmed as a new OpenAI model following a 429 rate limit error that revealed details from OpenAI's API.

OPENAI IS ENTERING THE SEARCH GAME

OpenAI is developing a search engine for ChatGPT to allow the AI to search the web for answers.

DATOLOGYAI $46M SERIES A

The data curation platform adds to its $11m seed round from September, aiming to expand its team and continue building for enterprise.

NEARLY ALL FTX CREDITORS WILL GET 118% OF THEIR FUNDS BACK IN CASH, ESTATE SAYS IN NEW PLAN

Former crypto exchange FTX has proposed a plan to see 98% of creditors receive 118% of their claims. Other non-governmental creditors would get 100% of claims plus up to 9% interest if the bankruptcy court approves the plan. The money was accrued by selling various FTX assets, like its stake in AI company Anthropic. FTX's lack of BTC and ETH holdings at the time of bankruptcy prevented it from seeing asset appreciation due to recently rising prices.

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN WILL VETO LEGISLATION ALLOWING FINANCIAL FIRMS TO CUSTODY BITCOIN: WHITE HOUSE

President Joe Biden's Executive Office announced that Biden would veto the proposed H.J. Res. 109, allowing highly regulated financial firms to be cryptocurrency custodians. The office claims the resolution would disrupt the SEC and overturn a previous SEC bulletin. The legislation passed in the House of Representatives.

VANECK LAUNCHES MEMECOIN INDEX

VanEck has launched an index of popular meme coins like DOGE and SHIB. Its strategy caps individual coins at a 30% weighting and adjusts monthly. VanEck warns investors how memecoins are volatile and driven by social media influence.

MASTERCARD WORKS ON TOKENIZED SETTLEMENT

Mastercard is partnering with major U.S. banking institutions like Citigroup, Visa, and JPMorgan to test a tokenized settlement system on a shared ledger platform, aiming to streamline multi-asset class settlements. This Regulated Settlement Network (RSN) trial integrates different asset types like treasuries and commercial bank money into a unified system, potentially improving settlement efficiency and lowering risks associated with traditional finance systems.

DEEP DIVE INTO EIP-7702

This post breaks down how EIP-7702, recently proposed by Vitalik Buterin, incorporates EIP-3074, 4337, and 5003 to improve Ethereum's account abstraction while enhancing security and user experience. EIP-7702 introduces a migration mechanism for EOAs to leverage smart contract features, enabling users to interact with Ethereum in a more streamlined fashion.

NIC CARTER'S ANALYSIS ON 5 STABLECOIN PERSPECTIVES

This article shares five perspectives on stablecoins and what a post-stablecoin world looks like. It focuses on thoughts that shift from “should stablecoins exist” to “assuming stablecoins, then what” and explores a wide spectrum of views from academics to policymakers.

$438B ASSET MANAGER SUSQUEHANNA BUYS $1.3B IN BITCOIN ETFS

In its 13F filing, Susquehanna revealed it purchased $1.3 billion of Bitcoin ETFs. The purchase was spread across various ETFS, with Grayscale's GBTC accounting for over $1 billion. This is the largest recorded holding of the ETF to date. Hightower, a $130B asset manager, recently bought $68 million in Bitcoin ETFs.

STRUCTURING BLOBSPACE FUTURES FOR FUN AND PROFIT

PANTERA CAPITAL: 100TH LETTER FUND V LAUNCH

Pantera Capital is launching a new $1 billion venture fund, Pantera Fund V, to invest across the spectrum of venture equity, early-stage tokens, treasury tokens, and liquid tokens.

BENEFITS OF COSMOS

This thread briefly touts the benefits of using the Cosmos chain due to the IBC bridge's cheap, fast settlement and bigger Dapps like DyDx leveraging Cosmos' app chain capabilities

ARGENTINA ENERGY COMPANY TO MINE BITCOIN

An Argentinian state-owned energy firm, YPF Luz, is working with Genesis Digital Assets to launch a Bitcoin mining operation powered by stranded gas from oil fields.

“HOW TO DICTATOR-PROOF YOUR MONEY”

Human rights activists are using Bitcoin to maintain financial independence despite authoritarian regimes trying to weaponize traditional finance systems to strip them of their assets.

GOOGLE BRINGS A VARIATION ON ‘CIRCLE TO SEARCH' TO IPHONE USERS

Google has introduced a shortcut for iPhone 15 Pro users to perform visual searches using Google Lens by pressing the Action Button, circumventing iOS limitations on gesture-based interactions. To utilize this feature, users must install the Google app and assign the visual search shortcut to their iPhone's Action Button.

APPLE LAUNCHES FINAL CUT CAMERA APP TO SUPPORT MULTICAM PRODUCTIONS

Apple has released Final Cut Camera for iPhone and iPad, allowing filmmakers to take video and stream it live back to an iPad for a multicam shoot. The updated Final Cut 2 app allows users to can control each Final Cut Camera-running device connected to it with a multiscreen view. Users can switch between production and editing anytime to live-cut their projects in the new version.

THE NEW SONOS APP IS MISSING A LOT OF FEATURES, AND PEOPLE AREN'T HAPPY

Sonos released a redesigned mobile app that promised a more personalized and modern experience with a customizable home screen, but the update removed several features, prompting mixed reactions from users. While some praise the improved responsiveness and intuitive design, others, especially those relying on local music libraries and sleep timers, are frustrated with the app's regression in functionality and accessibility.

CASE STUDY: SERRA. IDENTITY AND PRODUCT DESIGN FOR FINANCIAL APP

Serra is an iOS/Android app that aims to solve locals' real-life challenges by building a culturally aware financial application from the ground up in Montserrat (the Caribbean region). The brand logo, a bold wordmark mixing typographic and calligraphic elements, strives for legibility and emotional connection through handwriting association. Its color palette, predominantly green with contrastive orange, evokes trust and friendliness, and is complemented by the neat and readable Mabry Pro typography.

GOING FROM DESIGNER TO DESIGN MANAGER IN AN ORGANIZATION WITH A LOW DESIGN MATURITY

Transitioning from a designer to a design manager in organizations needing more design maturity presents challenges. Designers often defend their decisions, while managers must justify the team's fundamental value. These struggles are observed in organizations categorized at lower levels of design maturity, suggesting underlying cultural issues rather than solely communication or strategic shortcomings.

WHY & HOW ETHICS MATTER IN DESIGN

While design's visual appeal often takes the spotlight with its trendy aesthetics and flashy packaging, the essence of design as a problem-solving process is overlooked in pursuit of profit. This piece emphasizes the need for ethical considerations in design. It encourages designers to contribute positively to pressing global issues and outlines resources for those seeking to make an impact through their work.

THE AI DESIGN TOOL FOR PRODUCT PHOTOSHOOTS

With an intuitive, user-friendly interface and a powerful AI engine, Flair AI can generate high-quality product photoshoots in seconds.

700+ FREE UI COMPONENTS WITH CODE EDITOR

EasyFrontend offers a collection of UI Components, Blocks, and Sections built with HTML, React, Bootstrap, and Tailwind CSS to enable you to make a site in minutes.

EXTEND YOUR TAILWIND COLORS

fullwindcss is a Tailwind CSS plugin that lets you unlock 1,001 shades for every tailwind color instead of being limited to the default 11 shades.

DECLARATIVE DESIGN

Design tools are typically imperative, allowing us to create pixel-perfect interfaces. In contrast, CSS is a declarative language that sets boundary conditions and lets the browser handle the details. Some designers avoid CSS at all costs, while others jump into designing in the browser. However, an exciting alternative is to use the browser to make design decisions instead of creating on it.

KEEP IT TOGETHER: 5 ESSENTIAL DESIGN PATTERNS FOR DEV TOOL UIS

Tabs must be distinct, flexible, and intuitive for multitasking, while toolbars should prioritize common actions without overcrowding or inconsistency. Navigation sidebars should be well-organized, collapsible, searchable, and customizable. Properties panels need to be clear, concise, and easily accessible for attribute editing.

TRANSPARENT BORDERS

Removing borders with CSS can pose accessibility issues, especially in high contrast mode. Setting border color: transparency enables changing border color without affecting the box model. It is helpful for hover effects without layout alterations. This approach also aids in themeable design systems by offering flexibility for various brands and themes, reducing misalignment and unexpected behavior caused by different border widths, and minimizing QA efforts.

DESIGNER ENGAGEMENT SURVEY

How happy are UX and Product Designers at work?

THE ANATOMY OF IMPERFECTION: INSIDE STEFANO COLFERAI'S PLAYFUL STOP MOTION ANIMATIONS OF EVERYDAY LIFE

The work of Stefano Colferai makes light of life's imperfections.

CICADAS RISING

This spring, two broods of cicadas — one that lives on a 13-year cycle and the other that lives on a 17-year cycle — will emerge simultaneously from underground in a rare, synchronized event that last occurred in 1803.

Bookmark the playbook now — it's free and ungated

A GUIDE TO GEN ALPHA: INSIGHTS ON THE GATEWAY GENERATION

The typical Gen Alpha kid spends $45 of their own money each week. This comes out to about $50 billion annually when you put all the Gen Alphas together. About 36% earn income money through online selling or reselling, and 47% do odd jobs outside the home to get paid. Their adeptness with digital platforms and apps also makes spending accessible and frictionless. Parents are heavily influenced by their Gen Alpha children's preferences, earning them the nickname “Gateway Generation”.

HOW META IS ADDRESSING MARKETERS' GENERATIVE AI CONCERNS WITH NEW TOOLS

Meta has unveiled a set of new generative AI features for advertisers, including image and text generators that speed up creative production. The offerings address a demand among marketers for a greater sense of control in their AI experiments and a guarantee that the end results will meet specific internal brand guidelines, like ensuring the correct colors are present in ads. Meta is also expanding its AI-powered text generation to ad headlines in addition to primary text.

5 WAYS TO SPEED UP MARKET RESEARCH

This post shares 5 tips to get insights to your marketing stakeholders faster so they can make informed decisions quicker. Build an accessible insights repository that's tagged with research and business questions. Invest in quick-turnaround self-serve research platforms. There are research platforms that let you survey target audiences in days or hours (not weeks). Release bite-sized reports frequently. Each report can be based on a theme or one research study. This gives stakeholders preliminary data to work with while waiting for the rest of it.

HOW TO PERFECT YOUR SHARABLE CONTENT GAME

The typical scroller reshares content when it connects with an interest, a feeling, or a belief. Once a week, pick a piece of content that's going to get you the most new eyeballs by being super sharable. First, pick the connection point that's going to convince your audience to share. Then pick a format to deliver the content through. This could be a statement, quote, meme, or trending topic. Lastly, post, test, track, and repeat. Memes may work well on Threads, but not on LinkedIn. Case study posts may get several story reshares, but nothing as an X thread. The only way to know is to test.

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INTRODUCING THE PINTEREST MEDIA BUYER CERTIFICATION

Pinterest has launched a Media Buyer Certification within its online Pinterest Academy. The program is free and is designed to help marketers showcase their skills. To get certified, you'll need to pass a 60-question exam that covers topics like campaign activation, optimization, and reporting. No coursework is required, but you can use Pinterest's study guide and practice exam to prepare.

15 ONLINE REPUTATION MANAGEMENT TOOLS

15 curated online reputation management tools designed to help companies monitor and manage their online brand reputation. Reputology turns reviews into actionable data, highlighting recurring themes and topics. Mention can fetch mentions up to 2 years in the past. Chatmeter allows you to understand brand sentiment and uncover issues before they harm your brand's reputation.

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE NOSTALGIA EFFECT

The Nostalgia Effect explains why people spend more when they remember their past. Researchers found that nostalgia fills people with a sense of connection and belonging, and those feelings fulfill basic human needs. Consequently, in those moments people tend to view money as less important and desirable. Marketers can use nostalgia by modernizing icons or imagery from the past, using storytelling to evoke desired emotions, or by tapping into throwbacks that Millennials or Gen Z would love.

COKE VS. PEPSI: AN ALL-TIME MARKETING BLUNDER

Despite overwhelmingly positive feedback from focus groups and taste tests by nearly 200,000 people, the launch of the New Coke formula was an undeniable failure. Coke had been seeking a way to gain market share from its rival, Pepsi, but it ended up generating overwhelming customer backlash. Customers hated the New Coke simply because of what the original Coke meant to them, not because of the new drink's taste. Pepsi capitalized on Coke's failure by giving its employees the day off and declaring victory in full-page newspaper ads. This marketing blunder illustrates why brands should watch what their customers do – not what they say. Moreover, a passionate audience matters more than a great product.

FAKE ACCOUNTS: STOP IGNORING THIS GROWTH PROBLEM

3 WAYS TO USE AN ELLIPSIS AAAAND … KEEP YOUR READERS HOOKED

The ellipsis — dot dot dot — can adjust your tone, up suspense, and even keep your readers engaged.